Full Description
This comprehensive book offers an overview of the latest advances in knee ligament and knee preservation surgery, including cartilage, meniscus, and osteotomy procedures.Designed to offer practical guidance on the management of complex knee problems, it presents clinical scenarios as well as recommendations by leading international experts.
Written in collaboration with ISAKOS and drawing on a variety of perspectives it is invaluable tool for orthopedic and sports medicine surgeons.
Contents
Who needs ACL surgery? .- Evidence Based Patient-Specific Graft Selection for ACL Reconstruction.- Assessment of Risk Factors of Failure of ACLR: When to Address Concomitant Pathology.- Technique Corner: ACLR Optimal Tunnel Placement: How to Get There? .- Evidenced Based Approach for Anterolateral Surgery for ACL Reconstruction.- Why does LET Work? .- The Evidence Regarding ACL Repair.- Outcomes of ACLR.- Advances in Rehabilitation and Return to Sport .- Revision ACLR.- Complications of ACLR.- Osteotomy: Slope Change Tibial Osteotomy to Address ACL deficiency.- Biologics: PTOA following ACLR.- Assessment of the Multiligament Knee.- When do you need to reconstruct a PCL? .- Technique Corner: PCL.- Technique Corner: PLC.- Technique Corner: MCL. - Biologics: Advances in Treating Arthrofibrosis.- Assessment of Patellofemoral Instability.- Osteotomy: Coronal and Axial Plane Deformity.- Save the Meniscus: Advances in Meniscal Repair Techniques.- Meniscus Root Tears.- Meniscus Substitution.- Update on Indications, Technique, and Outcome of Meniscus Transplantation.- Technique Corner: Cell-based Cartilage Repair.- Technique Corner: Marrow Stimulation and Augmentation.- Technique Corner: Particulate Cartilage.- Technique Corner: Osteochondral Allograft.- Technique Corner: Osteochondral Autograft.- Osteotomy: Offloading Procedures for Cartilage Restoration.- Biologics: PRP, BMAC, etc.
